Lots of things going on around here. We got the motor home parked on Monday morning and all hooked up. Nice to have cable tv and all those good things. The air card is working quite well.at least we do not have to rely on someone elses wi-fi that is usually pretty slow.

Tuesday we had a water problem with a broken valve on the outside shower fixture. As usual the manufacturer that built the motor home makes things easy for them but creates problems for the repair person. I will not go into details, but it was a big job to change the fixture when it should have only taken half an hour. On top of that, after the repair was made, the water worked fine except in the kitchen sink. No water! Water everywhere else in the motor home. So we bled the lines to the sink and had water everywhere. Finally discovered that the water diffuser on the sink was completely plugged with lime/calcium or what ever. I cleaned it out and all worked fine. It semed it was just one thing after another.

Our photos are of route 66 on our trip to Oatman, AZ. It is really the "Mother Road" in all respects. It is narrow and it really follows the contour of the area. Few of the hills were graded out and the low areas filled. The areas that drain the water from the mountains were not bridged, the road just followed the "draw" and lets the water flow over the pavement, thus preventing the need for a bridge and that expense. The road has not been improved since it was built. Some of the curves are 15 and 20 mph and
the road is about 20 feet wide. It is difficult to stay on your side of the road and stay on the pavement. Not a lot of traffic so it is not a problem.

I can only imagine what it was like negotiating these mountains and curves back when the road was new. There are lots of areas on the up grades to pull off the road if the car got hot. There are places to pull off on the downhill side to let the brakes cool. The grades are what appear to be 6 and 7% grades and the sharp curves that you can not see around. Pretty steep for vehicles at that time.

While we were in Oatman, I saw a relatively new Rolls Royce come in from the pass up the mountain and it parked on the south side of the business area. I did not have a camera available so I did not get a photo. A very unusual thing to see in Oatman, AZ.